ITI: Biden Administration Should Center Trade Opportunities in New U.S.-UK Economic Partnership
WASHINGTON – Today, global tech trade association ITI called for the Biden Administration to advance meaningful trade policy through the new Atlantic Declaration and Action Plan for a Twenty-First Century U.S.-UK Economic Partnership.
“The global technology industry welcomes this new platform as a means of strengthening U.S.-UK collaboration and joint leadership,” said ITI President and CEO Jason Oxman. “As the two nations agree to expand cooperation on priority technologies, security tools, and the clean energy economy, the Biden Administration should bear in mind that a comprehensive trade policy agenda is fundamental to achieving these goals. ITI strongly encourages the U.S. and UK to look towards ambitious, rules-based commitments to strengthen U.S.-UK leadership in emerging technologies and other areas across this new plan’s pillars.”
ITI has called on the Biden Administration to reinvigorate its responsibility to engage in meaningful trade policy and advance U.S. competitiveness. Earlier this week, ITI President and CEO Jason Oxman highlighted in the Financial Timeshow a U.S.-UK trade agreement would be a timely opportunity to establish a new global benchmark for digitally focused trade in the 21st century.